I have made new scans of the illustrations to George Gush's Renaissance Warfare - Airfix Magazine Articles (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/RenaissanceWarfare-AirfixMagazineArticles.htm) and replaced the old .gifs with .jpgs. The download .zip of all 23 parts is now somewhat larger.
Part 1: Introduction (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/01_Introduction.htm)
Part 2: Infantry weapons and organisation (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/02_Infantry_Weapons.htm)
Part 3: infantry missile weapons (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/03_Infantry_Missiles.htm)
Part 4: The artillery (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/04_Artillery.htm)
Part 5: Cavalry weapons and organisation (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/05_Cavalry.htm)
Part 6: Henry VIII's army (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/06_English.htm)
Part 7: Irish army of the 16th Century (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/07_Irish.htm)
Part 8: The Universal Soldier (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/08_Lansknecht.htm)
Part 9: Swiss (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/09_Swiss.htm)
Part 10: The Turks - Part 1: the Spahis (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/10_Turks.htm)
Part 11: The Turks - Part 2: Janissaries and others (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/11_Turks.htm)
Part 12: The Scots (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/12_Scots.htm)
Part 13: the Polish Army (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/13_Polish.htm)
Part 14: Spanish infantry (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/14_Spanish.htm)
Part 15: Spanish Ginetes to Caballos Corazas (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/15_Spanish.htm)
Part 16: The French (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/16_French.htm)
Part 17: the Imperialists (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/17_Imperialist.htm)
Part 18: Persians and other easterners (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/18_Easterners.htm)
Part 19: the Dutch army (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/19_Dutch.htm)
Part 20: the Swedish army (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/20_Swedish.htm)
Part 21: the Swedish army (continued) (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/21_Swedish.htm)
Part 22: the Muscovites (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/22_Muscovites.htm)
Part 23: the Muscovites (continued) (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/23_Muscovites.htm)
These are old and sometimes inaccurate, but, still useful.
Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/index.htm)
Very useful - thanks
IanS
Indeed !!
Cheers - Phil
Got the original book but as you say, it's quite informative.
Thanks for this as they look to be very handy indeed :)
Nice one D!
Thanks for this. It's a lot more use that his WRG Renaissance rules! ;)
Quote from: sunjester on 14 July 2015, 07:14:40 PM
Thanks for this. It's a lot more use that his WRG Renaissance rules! ;)
Still got a copy of them in my 'Sad Old Gits Rulebooks from the Distant Past' cupboard. How they worked for the rest of the Renaissance I have no idea, we only ever used them for ECW. When we started the options available were them or Newbury rules and they looked like a faster set.
I am still looking for a good set of Rennaisance rules.
The only modifiers NOT in the melee table were
"Is your commander in need of a Sh*t" -2
"Did your Commander get laid last night" +1
These things shape the destiny of nations!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 15 July 2015, 07:56:06 AM
These things shape the destiny of nations!
....as they said of Helen of Troy.
Very useful, many thanks for posting. Should they go into the resources section?
Cheers Paul
I had a few requests for the next 2 parts (for nostalgic reasons), so here they are:
Part 24 – Converting Airfix figures for Renaissance armies by George Gush (http://warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/24_Converting_Airfix_figures.htm)
Part 25 – Converting Airfix figures for Renaissance armies (continued) (http://warfare.altervista.org/Renaissance/25_Converting_Airfix_figures.htm)
Druzhina
16th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/16C.htm)
Woo hoo....bad old days.
Do you think anybody actually did all that ?
They must have been very committed to the period, or just committed.
Yes we did! :o =) :-[
I think that was one of the joys of wargaming when I was young. I used to read my Dads old Airfix mags and attempt some of the conversions. Yes they were crude but I did enjoy them.
I remember around 1969 converting a load of WWI French into ACW zouaves and some French Cuirassiers into Charleston Dragoons.
Just spotted this! Cracking, proper snarf of those tomorrow when at a real PC and not on the phone :)
Quote from: howayman on 19 July 2015, 12:08:10 PM
Do you think anybody actually did all that ?
They must have been very committed to the period, or just committed.
There was no cavalry in the Airfix Ancient Britons box, so I made Gallic and British cavalry from US cavalry riders with Robin Hood upper half, with some having an Ancient Britons head. Pins for spears and paper cloaks billowing behind.
Druzhina
Ancient Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Ancient.htm)
Wow, that is brave D!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 July 2015, 07:20:38 AM
Wow, that is brave D!
Now I remember using some French Cuirassier uppers to give armour to some of the Gauls (the shoulders were covered by the cloak after the epaulettes were cut away) and a general on a rearing horse with the Britons feathered helmet. Shields were cardboard. Some of the British had cowboy legs and the smaller horses from the Cowboys and Indians box as light cavalry.
Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/index.htm)
Ah, those happy, far off days of plastic, craft knives, hot pins and banana oil.
Quote from: Leman on 20 July 2015, 08:19:10 AM
Ah, those happy, far off days of plastic, craft knives, hot pins and banana oil.
.... and sliced finger tips :(
I made my Gallic cavalry by using the horses and bottom half of the ACW troopers and the top half of the bare chested-chariot driver pinned together. Shields were either drawing pins -better option because you pinned it to the figure- or punched out circles off card from a hole punch. Cloaks were tissue paper sealed with several coats of banana oil. The heads of cut down dressmaking pins were used to hold the Roman shields in place while the sharp end was used as a javelin.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 20 July 2015, 03:07:30 PM
.... and sliced finger tips :(
Had many of them in my youth...mostly from a the anti-H&S combo of a plastic ruler and a craft knife for cutting out bases. When I look back it never ceases to amaze me at how many times I mangled digits before waking up and buying the right equipment.